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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

February 2, 2012 by Yasmin Bendror
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What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! Things moved at the speed of light, right?  I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time. As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching... [read more]

Consumers Choose Email To Communicate with Favorite Brands

January 3, 2012 by Steve Olenski
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In our digitally-crazed world of Twitter, Facebook, SMS and on and on... the preferred method of communicating with a favorite brand for many is via email. [read more]

5 Tips to Avoid the Spam Folder and the Courtroom

December 22, 2011 by Stanford Smith
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"In this guest post, Russell offers great insight into how to make sure that your email marketing doesn’t annoy your blog subscribers or get you into trouble. Of course, we are not attorneys and this is not legal advice…you know the drill." [read more]

5 Ways To Make An Email Newsletter Your Best Sales Tool

December 1, 2011 by John Jantsch
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"No matter how enamored you may be with social media, email still outpunches just about every tool out there when it comes to cost effective lead conversion." [read more]

Warning To ALL Companies: Canada’s New Anti-Spam Legislation (Bill C-28) could Have You Paying $10,000,000 in Fines

November 25, 2011 by Andrew Hunt
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Did you know that you could be fined up to $10,000,000 under Canada’s New Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) Bill C-28 per violation? Oh, and if you think that just because your business is located outside of Canada despite sending emails to Canadians, you are not affected, you are WRONG! Moreover, it’s not just for email marketers, it applies to ALL forms of electronic messages. That means your social media campaigns, mobile marketing…. anything digital. While the law is not set to be implemented until mid-2012, for many companies this law will drastically change how they market to Canadian companies and individuals. [read more]

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Is Facebook Taking Over the World?

October 25, 2011 by Amy Fowler
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A look at Facebook's potential monopolisation of the Internet. [read more]

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6 Ways To Socialize Your Email Marketing Campaigns

October 11, 2011 by Yo Noguchi
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As brand owners rely more and more on social networking sites as a marketing tool, some are predicting that email will lose its central position as online activity shifts more towards the social networking channels. Having said that, email marketing volumes are not exactly declining and are in fact, enjoying exponential growth along with... [read more]

5 Email Marketing Tips for More Successful Campaigns

October 7, 2011 by Gareth Case
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"For me, email campaigns simply don’t work in isolation, especially in the b2b world. Perhaps that’s due to the nature of the business I work in but I believe to get the best results, email must be one dimension of a multi-touch strategy." [read more]

The 3-Legged Stool of Online Success: SEO, Email Marketing and Social Media

September 8, 2011 by Frank Barry
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You know how a 3-legged stool works, right? If you're missing one of the legs or have a weak leg the stool will eventually fall to the ground. It takes all 3 for the stool to be successful at it's job - holding you up. The online world has a similar 3-legged stool - SEO, Email and Social. All three work in harmony to support a comprehansive online presense. If you're missing one, the others suffer. [read more]

4 Critical Components to Your Email Marketing Strategy

July 27, 2011 by Frank Barry
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Email is a a form of communication (and full blown industry) that’s been around for a while. There are very well established best practices, standard metrics that are tracked, widely accepted and proven statistical data to measure your effectiveness by and countless bits of information on the web to teach us how to do email marketing and communication well. Funny thing is though; a lot of us don’t listen (or get off track due to the need to drive results in the short term). [read more]

How to Measure Results in Digital Marketing

March 10, 2011 by Brett Relander
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Brett Relander of Tactical Marketing Labs discusses the importance of measuring the results of your marketing efforts and provides tips on how to do it. [read more]

Five Clicks to Track for Your Email Program

February 15, 2011 by Sundeep Kapur
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This one is a classic and offers the fundamentals on what metrics to look at first for your email marketing program.One of the strongest ways to segment any campaign is through the click-through data collected. Personalization, relevance and even timing can all be improved through proper click-through analysis.Most marketers look at the... [read more]

Social Marketing: You Have to Message on Relevance

February 11, 2011 by Sundeep Kapur
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We’ve all been there, you get an email from a company but are not exactly sure why. I’m not talking about some funky segmentation or broad-brush promotional email – I mean an obvious what-were-they-thinking? [read more]

The Future of Traditional Marketing

January 11, 2011 by Brett Relander
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Brett Relander from Tactical Marketing Labs describes how traditional media can be leveraged to include digital marketing and social media assets to reduce marketing costs and increase revenue in the digital age. [read more]

7 Tips to Integrate Email with Social Media

July 16, 2010 by Tink Taylor
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Social media is the latest buzzword in the marketing industry. But social media does not work well in isolation. By integrating your social media activity with your email marketing, you can improve the effectiveness and results from both disciplines, bringing outstanding bottom-line results. Unfortunately many marketers just aren’t... [read more]

Social Networking Continues To Surpasses Email In Usage

April 15, 2010 by Chad Richards
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This post isn't about bashing email. We've been seeing some great results in the last few months with email. Specifically, better open rates, better click throughs, and better conversions into sales (although this isn't always trackable for every situation - we have been tracking it with some projects). One clear take away is that... [read more]

Report: Social Media + Email = More Power

March 24, 2010 by ScottMonty
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A new report from eMarketer shows how combining the strengths of email and social media can lead to better results. You'll recall around these parts the discussion of "Silent E." Now this report teases that out a little more. It's about how two complementary marketing practices can be used more wisely to engage customers in... [read more]

15 reasons to love social media

March 9, 2010 by Marc Meyer
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My last few posts have been about the darker side of social media and thus I wanted to clear something up.  I am the biggest champion of social media that you will find and here's why. I may get a little spicy sometimes, but that doesn't diminish all the “good” things about this crazy space and all that it delivers to... [read more]

Strongmail CEO Survey: More Budget to Shift to Email Marketing

January 4, 2010 by Roderick Low
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There is no doubt by now that social media marketing is creeping into every SMEs mind in the coming year. According to many reports in the last quarter of 2009, social media and email marketing will be the top priorities for SMEs in 2010. There are  already a few blogs predicting the marketing trends next year, therefore, I won't... [read more]

Here comes the recession… and B2B spam!

April 7, 2009 by Niall Cook
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Spam is obviously a fact of life these days, but I can't help but notice a subtle increase in the amount of unsolicited email hitting my work inbox.And it's not just the quantity that is grabbing my attention, but the content too.You see, this isn't the usual Viagra or Rolex material but people - I'm guessing salespeople - desparately... [read more]

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